How Rising RAM Costs Are Reshaping the Future of Gaming?

Growing AI-driven memory demand alters hardware costs and shifts the long-term direction of the gaming market landscape.

Hardware by Godrics01 on Dec 09, 2025

Changes in the supply and demand for gaming components are affecting the gaming industry. The price and availability of RAM are currently hurting gaming devices. RAM is needed for all gaming devices, from PCs to consoles, to run software.

Changes in the business have raised new questions about how gaming hardware may be affected in the years to come.

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Why RAM is Important for All Gaming Devices

We truly hate to be the ones to tell you this, but gaming might be over. There are several reasons we think the gaming business isn't headed in the right direction, but right now, it's RAM.

And no, we're not talking about the Dodge truck that everyone loves. We're talking about the small sticks you place in your computer, also known as RAM.

What does this have to do with video games? Well, every PC needs RAM, even for console gamers who don't like gaming PCs or constructing their own. It's one of the bits that the PC needs to work and do things.

It doesn't look like it's the master race after all. But here's the big thing. You also need RAM to play games on consoles. The PS5 and Xbox Series X both require 16GB of VRAM, while the Switch 2 requires 12GB. In short, all gaming devices need VRAM to work.

How AI Demand and RAM Supply Are Related

ChatGPT just turned 3 years old, it turns out. AI needs $1.5 trillion in investment, as well as a lot of raw materials and resources to run, which is a lot more than a baby throwing harmless tantrums. RAM is one of these necessary resources.

Yes, that's right. OpenAI needs the same amount of RAM that your gaming PC needs to play Pow World with more than just friends.

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Final Thoughts

We had to add this part three days after we filmed the rest of the video because breaking news: Micron, one of the three biggest makers of RAM, has chosen to stop selling RAM to ordinary people altogether.

Micron, which owns Crucial, wants to go all out on AI and sell all of its RAM to AI startups like OpenAI. This RAM will be used in AI data centers all around the US.

Well, thank goodness AI isn't utilizing people for energy. But all of this suggests that RAM prices have gone through the roof over the last month due to strong demand from the growing AI industry.

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